Editor’s note: The author is technical director of the AICPA Center for Plain English Accounting. Addressing audit risk in financial statements with high levels of substantive procedures toward the ...

Nobody really likes being audited, but it's an important function to ensure the practices and policies of a company and/or individual are above board. And, as with all jobs, someone's gotta do it.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued a report Thursday warning about significant deficiencies it is seeing in auditing firms’ assessment of risks in their clients. Processing Content ...

The new audit risk standards require the auditor to understand and respond to risks of material misstatement, whether due to errors or fraud. In reaching that understanding, auditors should identify ...

Annually, we perform a campus wide risk assessment, with the support of Internal Audit and the University’s Compliance Program. We embraces a holistic strategy for risk identification, utilizing a ...